Twin Cities Jazz Festival is back for the 14th year, anchored at St. Paul’s always-lovely Mears Park, which is so cool this time of year it almost doesn’t need the addition of live jazz.

But there will be jazz. Free jazz. Three days of jazz in the park starting Thursday, June 28, with the weekly Music in Mears concert. And it’s really top-shelf free jazz, with headliners Delfaeyo Marsalis (Friday night), the Bad Plus with Joshua Redman (Saturday night), Francisco Mela and Cuban Safari, the Luca Ciarla Quartet and Araya Orta Latin Jazz Quartet.

When it’s time to get out of the park, there will be additional shows at the Artists’ Quarter, Amsterdam Bar and Hall, Black Dog Cafe, Senor Wong’s, Minnesota Music Cafe, Wild Tymes, Station 4, Hat Trick Lounge and lots of other St. Paul bars and restaurants. Some of those clubs may charge a cover.

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